Bunburying And The Importance Of Being Ernest

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If bunburying or bunbury did not happen in the movie The Importance of Being Earnest a significant amount of the major event in the film would not have happened. If both Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff did not bunbury about being Earnest, they would not have fallen in love, and neither one would have gotten married. If Jack had not bunburied he would not have found out he was the baby in the black bag, he was Algernon's old brother, Lady Augusta Bracknell was his aunt, and his real name was, in fact, Earnest. When thinking of a similar event that someone had bunbury and the ending result was favorably on the good side, The Parent Trap came to mind. In the movie The Parent Trap two preteen girl meet at a summer camp. They come to find

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